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Panasas & CD-adapco Partner to Advance CAE Productivity
Panasas Parallel Storage Heralds Breakthrough Performance with CD-adapco Software: Panasas announced today that it has forged a strategic alliance with Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) market leader CD-adapco. Recent certification of CD-adapco's STAR-CD and STAR-CCM+ Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software on Panasas ActiveStor parallel storage delivers new and significant performance advantages for a broad range of CAE simulations. The industry benefit is faster time to solution, which allows companies and organizations within the automotive, aerospace, turbo machinery, oil and gas, and other industries to be more productive and more profitable. 
"The synergy between CD-adapco software and Panasas ActiveStor parallel storage is a prime example of parallel storage delivering tangible benefits to industries that depend on data-intensive CAE applications," said Len Rosenthal, chief marketing officer at Panasas. "The combined solution eliminates performance and scalability bottlenecks and enables engineers and scientists to run larger, more complex models with faster time to results." The manufacturing market is constantly striving to reduce design cycle times and costs, satisfy global regulations on safety and environmental concerns, and respond to customers who demand high-quality, well-designed products. The use of CAE technology with powerful and cost-effective x86-based computer clusters is critical to address these business challenges, yet I/O requirements of advanced CAE simulations have increasingly become a bottleneck that impedes overall workflow productivity and time to market. CD-adapco has a parallel I/O scheme in STAR-CD v3.2 that leverages the Panasas PanFS parallel file system for extended STAR-CD scalability and multi-job throughput. As CFD model sizes grow and cluster core counts are increased, I/O operations must be performed in parallel to realize the full benefits of scalable CFD. Today, CD-adapco and Panasas are in collaboration to deliver similar parallel I/O capability to future releases of STAR-CD and STAR-CCM+. Scalability of both computation and I/O operations increases productivity by ensuring maximum cluster utilization, because jobs run in parallel allowing more CFD simulations to be completed in less time. Scalable STAR-CD and Panasas parallel storage have been deployed in environments running design applications for power generation, formula-1 motor sports, and automotive internal combustion engines. Panasas storage is also deployed within CD-adapco's own CAE consulting services, an important revenue stream for the company. Panasas is the exclusive storage vendor for their biggest cluster at the Detroit consulting center. "We are delighted with our Panasas collaboration as it delivers immediate improvements in simulation scalability and workflow efficiency for our customers," said Steve MacDonald, president and co-founder of CD-adapco. "The performance advantages of a Panasas and CD-adapco solution validate our shared commitment to addressing the most demanding CAE simulation requirements. This solution has helped us meet the expanding CAE objectives of our customers." Additional information on ActiveStor Parallel Storage for STAR-CD can be found at its Web site.
"The synergy between CD-adapco software and Panasas ActiveStor parallel storage is a prime example of parallel storage delivering tangible benefits to industries that depend on data-intensive CAE applications," said Len Rosenthal, chief marketing officer at Panasas. "The combined solution eliminates performance and scalability bottlenecks and enables engineers and scientists to run larger, more complex models with faster time to results." The manufacturing market is constantly striving to reduce design cycle times and costs, satisfy global regulations on safety and environmental concerns, and respond to customers who demand high-quality, well-designed products. The use of CAE technology with powerful and cost-effective x86-based computer clusters is critical to address these business challenges, yet I/O requirements of advanced CAE simulations have increasingly become a bottleneck that impedes overall workflow productivity and time to market. CD-adapco has a parallel I/O scheme in STAR-CD v3.2 that leverages the Panasas PanFS parallel file system for extended STAR-CD scalability and multi-job throughput. As CFD model sizes grow and cluster core counts are increased, I/O operations must be performed in parallel to realize the full benefits of scalable CFD. Today, CD-adapco and Panasas are in collaboration to deliver similar parallel I/O capability to future releases of STAR-CD and STAR-CCM+. Scalability of both computation and I/O operations increases productivity by ensuring maximum cluster utilization, because jobs run in parallel allowing more CFD simulations to be completed in less time. Scalable STAR-CD and Panasas parallel storage have been deployed in environments running design applications for power generation, formula-1 motor sports, and automotive internal combustion engines. Panasas storage is also deployed within CD-adapco's own CAE consulting services, an important revenue stream for the company. Panasas is the exclusive storage vendor for their biggest cluster at the Detroit consulting center. "We are delighted with our Panasas collaboration as it delivers immediate improvements in simulation scalability and workflow efficiency for our customers," said Steve MacDonald, president and co-founder of CD-adapco. "The performance advantages of a Panasas and CD-adapco solution validate our shared commitment to addressing the most demanding CAE simulation requirements. This solution has helped us meet the expanding CAE objectives of our customers." Additional information on ActiveStor Parallel Storage for STAR-CD can be found at its Web site.